Spunk Library

The Kate Sharpley Library

Comrades and Friends #
No doubt some of you will be aware of the work of the Kate Sharpley
Library and Documentation Centre, which has been in existence for the
last eight years. In 1991 the Library was moved from a storage
location in London to Northamptonshire, where we are now in the
process of creating a database of the entire collection. At the same
time, a working group has been formed to over see the organisation
and running of the Library. The catalogue of the Library material
will be published by AK Press (Edinburgh).

The Library is made up of private donations from comrades, deceased
and living. It comprises several thousand pamphlets, books,
newspapers, journals, posters, flyers, unpublished manuscripts,
monographs, essay, etc. , in over 20 languages, covering the history
of our movement over the last century. It contains detailed reports
from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain
(1945-50), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979) and records
from the anarchist publishing houses, Cienfuegos Press, ASP and
others. Newspapers include near complete sets of Black Flag, Freedom,
Spain and the World, Direct Actions (from 1945 onwards), along with
countless others dating back 100 years. The Library also has a
sizeable collection of libertarian socialist and council communist
materials which we are keen to extend.

The Kate Sharpley Library is probably the largest collection of
anarchist material in England, and, in order to extend and enhance
the collection, we ask all anarchist groups and publications
worldwide to add our name to their mailing list. We also appeal to
all comrades and friends to donate suitable material to the Library.
All donations are welcome and can be collected. The Kate Sharpley
Library (KSL) was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War
anarchist and anti-war activist## one of the countless "unknown"
members of our movement so ignored by "official historians" of
anarchism. The Library regularly publishes lost areas of anarchist
history.

Please contact us if you would like to use our facilities. To receive
details of our publications, send a stamped addressed envelope to:
KSL, BM Hurricane, London WC1N 3XX, England